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Summary: A valuable book for interactive and art designers
Review: As an interactive designer, working for the educational software industry, I've found this book to be both facinating and meaningful.This book is useful both for beginers and professionals of the new media. The information and processes are being layed out infront of the reader in a simple and structured way. A must for all those who are creating in the digital world.
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Summary: A clear step-by-step approach to new media development.
Review: Building New Media is challenging. You'll find a trustful companion in this book, detailing both the workflow dynamics
and the tips and tricks of developing audiovisual content. If you need a one-stop shop book, pick this one.
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Summary: Simple. Clear. Invaluable.
Review: For once, someone makes the distinction between information design, interaction design and presentation design. This book was invaluable in helping our division more clearly define our process for product development.
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Summary: One of the best books on the subject
Review: Highly recommend this book for people at all levels of experience. I often give it to instructional designers new to online design. Clear, concise, genuinely helpful -- a well-written, extremely valuable resource for anyone involved in the design and execution of any product using multimedia. On top of all that, it's a visually appealing and well-designed publication. Whether you're an instructional designer, a project manager, a webmaster, an applications developer, or GUI designer, you will probably find something new here that you didn't know. I especially recommend getting this book if you are looking for a tool to help you put together good conceptual presentations of any multimedia, interactive project -- you can step-by-step your way to a complete presentation that will answer every question your audience might have about your product, and make sure you're not leaving any holes in your design at the same time.
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Summary: Sill holds up.
Review: I have had this book for 4+ years. I loaned it to a friend once who didn't return it, so I bough another one. Among the dozens of books I own and read on usability or project management, etc. this one is fantastic - a real stand-out. The one drawback is that it's not as contemporary/up-to-the-minute as newer books. [shrug]
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Summary: Art + Science + Design + Psychology
Review: I'm kind of tired of those dense, cerebral, "engineering by acronym" books produced by apparently brilliant programmers or other computer scientists who are doing, teaching, trying interface design. I am still amazed that these two accomplished this 131 page book in 131 pages (not 550). They did it by practicing what they preach: Integrating text with visuals with links (at least within the constraints of the book artifact). I refer to it often just to refresh myself and remind myself of what I enjoy doing for a living. And I still learn from it too. Perfect as a gift for colleagues.
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Summary: Cornerstone of the Interactive Age
Review: In this time of interactive age, this book tells you the way to get there. All are not but the essentials you must keep in mind are there within this book
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Summary: This book is NOT for experts only!
Review: Interactivity by Design has been advertised as being for "intermediate and advanced" audiences -- but it was written for readers at all experience levels, including those who have never created an interactive product
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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: Our teacher issued this book as our textbook for our Multimedia Design class. He has been using it for the past few years for all of his multimedia classes because he hasn't found a better one. Don't let the thinness of the book fool you (only about 120 pages.) All I can say is that this is one of the best Multimedia books I've ever seen. Although it was published in 1995, the material still applies to multimedia today. It's very simple and easy to read. It also provides several examples of "great" design and "bad" design by using pictures. (It's true that pictures speak a 1000 words!) For anyone who is interested in being a designer, this is definitely a great book to get.
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Summary: A bit too simple!
Review: The book promised a lot based on previous readers' reviews and the publishing house's reputation but I was disappointed with its contents. The information is well presented but too simplistic. Lacking any further elaboration this book is of little use if you have some experience in the field of interactive design. A good brain-storming session at home would come up with the same findings of this book.
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